Sentence examples for microscopic invertebrates from inspiring English sources

Some of these microscopic invertebrates shrug off temperatures of minus 272 Celsius, one degree warmer than absolute zero.

As autotrophs, they contribute to the production of oxygen and serve as food for a number of aquatic organisms, especially the microscopic invertebrates called rotifers.

We examined the response of rotifers (freshwater, microscopic invertebrates) to endocrine disruptors and we explored the best possible diet for fathead minnows.

In particular, small microscopic invertebrates seem to harbor large amounts of hidden genetic diversity within morphotypes that had been traditionally classified as a single species.

It's hard to say what is more curious about the bdelloid rotifer: the ability of these microscopic invertebrates--which look like tiny, transparent leeches--to survive for years without water, or the fact that the 450 species that make up this class of freshwater animals have survived for tens of millions of years without sex.

Rotifer, also called wheel animalcule, any of the approximately 2,000 species of microscopic, aquatic invertebrates that constitute the phylum Rotifera.

Kinorhynch, any of the approximately 150 species of microscopic marine invertebrates of the phylum Kinorhyncha, widely distributed in the world's oceans.

Gastrotrich, any of about 500 species of the phylum Gastrotricha, a group of microscopic aquatic invertebrates that live in the spaces between sand grains and soil particles and on the outer coverings of aquatic plants and animals.

Bdelloid rotifers are microscopic aquatic invertebrates of particular interest for two features of their lifestyles.

Volume 6A, B of Microscopic Anatomy of Invertebrates (Mollusca II).

Microscopic Anatomy of Invertebrates, Vol. 5. Mollusca I.. John Wiley & Sons, 386 pp., $US 185.